smooth operator
noun
a person who achieves social success or manipulates others through a calm, charming, and persuasive manner.
smooth operators
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pluralof smooth operator.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It’s not as if innocent little lambs here in the heartland were unknowingly doped up by smooth operators from Chicago.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
Still, we’re so used to smooth operators that it comes as a surprise when Petty gets hustled into paying a minor celebrity’s bar tab at Musso & Frank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2017
One of Halt and Catch Fire’s greatest strengths is that it avoids pigeonholing its characters into nerds or smooth operators, pragmatists or dreamers.
From The Verge ● May 28, 2015
They also, this show posits, might be important in ways some of their better-recognised and more lauded peers, smooth operators on the international stage as they may well be, are not.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2011
The men sound gruff and sentimental, smooth operators in white jackets and red shirts.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2010
